NEW DELHI : Nizamuddin in Delhi has become one of worst-hit COVID regions in India. At least ten people who attended the congregation hosted by Tabilgh-e-Jammat – a Muslim religious organisation in Delhi in mid-March, have died after testing positive for coronavirus. Several other delegates tested positive for COVID in different parts of the country. 16 travelers from abroad and people across 19 States including Kerala, were among some 4000-odd crowd that took part in the congregation last month. The Centre and State governments have stepped up efforts to track down these individuals. They had met on 9, 10, 13, 14, 17 and 18th of March to attend the communal gathering.
45 Delegates From Kerala
Incidentally, 45 people from Kerala had gone for the Tabiligh congregation. Of them, 5 natives of Kasaragod, the ones who took part in another religious congregation at Alappuzha and others who interacted closely with these people, have been quarantined.
Erode Intensifes Restrictions
Erode has tightened restrictions in the district after 10 delegates of Tabiligh congregation tested positive for COVID there. Of the 30 people tested, 10 were confirmed with presence of the virus. Four villages in the district have been converted into ‘buffer zones’ with added restrictions clamped on them. Around 1500 people from Tamil Nadu participated in the Delhi gathering . 82 people have shown symptoms of the virus in Coimbatore alone. And, 52 people tested positive for COVID on Tuesday.
1000 Tabiligh Delegates FromTelangana
1000 people from Telangana participated in Tabiligh congregation. The State is trying to identify these individual for testing and quarantine purposes. Telangana reported 6 deaths from COVID on Tuesday.
Centre Declares 10 COVID Hotspots
The Centre has warned of 10 regions including Kasaragod and Pathanamthitta in Kerala, which could potentially become the country’s COVID hotspots, meaning the disease was likely to spread at alarming speed at these places. The marked areas include Nizamuddin and Gordan in Delhi, Noida and Meerut in UP, Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra, Bilwara in Rajasthan and Kerala’s Pathanamthitta and Kasaragod. Pathanamthitta has been tagged for its sizeable number of overseas employees that returned to their homes in the distriact and Kasaragod, by the sheer number of active cases it continues to report.
3 More Deaths Tuesday, Tally Now 44
3 more deaths were reported across the country on Tuesday, one each from Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, raising the nationwide fatality numbers to 44. Among other developments, 150 new cases of COVID were reported on Tuesday in the country raising the national tally to 1397. Of them, more than 300 are from Maharashtra alone, which incidentally reported 72 fresh cases of the virus on Tuesday.
